In our space news roundtable this week we talk about NASA’s unfunded Space Act Agreement with the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, Exploding Magnetotails, mass extinction in Atacama due to rain and what that means for Mars, animal reaction to solar eclipses and NASA vs China in the race back to the moon.

The roundtable this week is run by Jared Head with Michael Clark, Sarah Vincent, Athena Brensberger, Jade Kim and Cariann Higginbotham.